Disclosed are an apparatus and method for preventing a vehicle collision. The apparatus includes a communication unit wirelessly communicating with a surrounding vehicle, a sensing unit detecting the surrounding vehicle and a lane, a traveling control module configured to control steering or braking of an ego vehicle, and a controller configured to determine whether the ego vehicle can perform steering avoidance driving toward a neighboring lane, through the sensing unit, based on information on a driving mode of a vehicle ahead received through the communication unit, if it is checked through the communication unit that a vehicle ahead of the vehicle ahead is in a stop state and to control the ego vehicle to perform the steering avoidance driving toward the neighboring lane or to urgently brake through the traveling control module, based on a result of the determination.
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2. The apparatus of claim 1, wherein the controller is configured to control the ego vehicle to perform the steering avoidance driving toward the neighboring lane or to urgently brake, based on whether the vehicle ahead performs steering avoidance driving in an autonomous driving mode.
5. The apparatus of claim 1, wherein the controller is configured to control the ego vehicle to perform the steering avoidance driving toward the neighboring lane or to urgently brake, when a forced control over the vehicle ahead in a manual driving mode is permitted.
7. The apparatus of claim 6, wherein the controller is configured to transmit the forced steering control command to the vehicle ahead when the vehicle ahead does not perform the steering avoidance driving up to a collision limit time between the vehicle ahead and the vehicle ahead of the vehicle ahead.
10. The apparatus of claim 1, wherein the controller is configured to determine in the collision avoidance mode whether a forced control over the vehicle ahead in a manual driving mode is permitted by performing wireless communications with the vehicle ahead through the communication unit.
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